OpenOffice 3.4 Released

OpenOffice 3.4 has been announced and this is their first release after the project has been handed to Apache Project last year. Since then, a major undergone has been made into this project, including a license change to Apache License 2.0.

Some highlights on this new major release are:

• Faster startup
• ODF 1.2 Encryption Support
• Improvements on UI for Draw and Impress
• Improvements on charts
• Line Cap property 
• SVG support
• Support for MultiImage
• New regular expression engine
• New color picker dialog

For complete and detailed changes, please have a look on the Release Notes

As usual, OpenOffice 3.4 is available to Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X on their download page.

I really wished someday, both LibreOffice and OpenOffice can reunite so that there won't be any confusion to users because both came from the same source. By merging these two products, i believe the users can benefit more rather than having two split projects.